ACDI/VOCA-Egypt: Integrating Small Farmers into the Value Chain

This program, which started in March 2008 and will go on until September 30, 2012, applies a market-driven value chain approach. It invests in the vast but largely unrealized potential of thousands of Upper Egypt's small farmers to meet modern-day market demands for product quality and quantity.

ACDI/VOCA is strengthening horizontal and vertical linkages in the horticultural chain to achieve higher levels of productivity and quality by

* transferring appropriate technologies and best practices to smallholders
* encouraging information flows and partnerships to increase coordination along the horticulture value chain
* facilitating development of commercial business service providers in production, post-harvest processing and marketing